BBC Two's 90-minute 7/7: One Day In London took 1.56m (7.2%), while Big Brother logged 1.24m (5.5%) for Channel 5 and 144k (0.8%) on timeshift.

The Walking Dead rallied over a thousand viewers to reach 861k (4.8%) on Five at 10pm, but marginally lost out to Channel 4's Daredevils: Life on the Edge, which dazzled 869k (5%) and 126k (1.4%) on +1.

Overall, BBC One nicked a primetime victory with 19.3% against ITV1's 18.9% (+1: 0.7%). BBC Two earned a third place finish with 8.7%, which was ahead of Channel 4's 4.6% (+1: 0.8%), and Channel 5's 4.1% (+1: 0.4%).

For the third day in a row, ITV3 managed to surpass the million viewer mark in the 9pm hour, this time with a classic episode of Taggart which mustered 1.04m (4.1%) and was the night's most-watched multichannel programme.

Sky Atlantic's Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin Bryce amused just 137k (0.6%), after which Armando Iannucci's Veep slumped to 43k (0.2%), and Brand X with Russell Brand opened with 27k (0.3%) at 11.05pm.